Final paper
Thomas Anderson 5/1/18 Engl 102 Melissa Santos Effects of Pesticides and Chemical Fertilizers In modern farming practices using pesticides and chemical fertilizers are used to increase yields and prevent the destruction of crops . For these purposes pesticides and fertilizers are all very useful especially with the creation of GMOs that offer protection of the plant from the pesticides but with the benefits that they grant they also bring many disadvantages along with them . As pesticides are mostly used to kill pests most of them are toxic to humans and can have many adverse effects . Most chemical fertilizers have nitrogen in them . When nitrogen gets into the water systems it can cause health problems in the humans drinking it and cause blooms of algae in water systems they get into . With this in mind I hope I can show you the reasons why The use of pesticides and chemical fertilizers have negative effects on the environment and to you yourself that make the benefi...